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<blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 4482026" data-attributes="member: 4607"><p>The bad science bugged me a little about the Heroes premiere, too. Another thing that bugged me...when Mohinder [spoiler]injected himself with the super-serum[/spoiler], he jabbed the needle directly into his arm, at about a 90 degree angle. This wouldn't have actually injected the stuff into his bloodstream (as he said earlier, that's how it's transferred throughout the body), but just into the muscle tissue of his arm. It's a nit-picky complaint, though. It looked more dramatic the way he did it. Makes it more of a "Dammit, Nurse Robinson, there's no TIME for testing!" kind of cheesey, b-movie moment which is fine, if that's what they were going for.</p><p></p><p>As for the topic in general, I don't think heroes (or the 4400, or star wars, etc) is really "science fiction". It's fantasy, with vaguely pseudo-science trappings. As such, I don't see that it has any responsibility to live up to any kind of scientific accuracy. I just wish, if they're going to use techno-babble, they'd just go all-out with it. "My God! It's all clear to me now! These powers all center around the release of Melatizine, from the recently-discovered Occipital Fargastular Gland! It all makes sense now..."</p><p></p><p>If you're gonna use silly pseudoscience, go ahead and make it silly pseudoscience, for the sake of Flux Capacitors, everywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="F5, post: 4482026, member: 4607"] The bad science bugged me a little about the Heroes premiere, too. Another thing that bugged me...when Mohinder [spoiler]injected himself with the super-serum[/spoiler], he jabbed the needle directly into his arm, at about a 90 degree angle. This wouldn't have actually injected the stuff into his bloodstream (as he said earlier, that's how it's transferred throughout the body), but just into the muscle tissue of his arm. It's a nit-picky complaint, though. It looked more dramatic the way he did it. Makes it more of a "Dammit, Nurse Robinson, there's no TIME for testing!" kind of cheesey, b-movie moment which is fine, if that's what they were going for. As for the topic in general, I don't think heroes (or the 4400, or star wars, etc) is really "science fiction". It's fantasy, with vaguely pseudo-science trappings. As such, I don't see that it has any responsibility to live up to any kind of scientific accuracy. I just wish, if they're going to use techno-babble, they'd just go all-out with it. "My God! It's all clear to me now! These powers all center around the release of Melatizine, from the recently-discovered Occipital Fargastular Gland! It all makes sense now..." If you're gonna use silly pseudoscience, go ahead and make it silly pseudoscience, for the sake of Flux Capacitors, everywhere. [/QUOTE]
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